A row in which mown grass or hay is laid before being made up into heaps or cocks, in which sods, peats, or sheaves of corn are set up to be dried by exposure to the wind
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Interviewer 1: you have them in rows? Speaker: Yeah, yeah we had to have it in rows ah ah-- with a horse rig. Interviewer 1: Mm-hm. Speaker: We have of an old one down there yet, lying then in the building. Interviewer 1: What did you used to call that row? Speaker: Ah ah- Interviewer 2: Wind. Speaker: Windrow. Interviewer 1: Mm-hm. And then after you ah- you coiled it, where- where did- what happened to it then? Speaker: After it sat for so many days, we pitched it on the wagon and brought it in, pitched it into the loft (laughs). All by hand. |
A row in which mown grass or hay is laid before being made up into heaps or cocks, in which sods, peats, or sheaves of corn are set up to be dried by exposure to the wind |
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And of-course I used them in haying too and eventually on the hayloader, with the lines hanging on the pin. And I'd build the loads and they would go themselves and come up to the end of a windrow and turn and get on the next windrow by themselves just talking to them. |
A row in which mown grass or hay is laid before being made up into heaps or cocks, in which sods, peats, or sheaves of corn are set up to be dried by exposure to the wind |
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So you- when you sheaves in (inc) when your stooking you wouldn't be running all over the place. You'd have a windrow of sheaves and a windrow of sheaves and then you go out and you stook it all by hand and then go out and load it up and- but see th-- n-- no- nobody- nobody does that anymore. Interviewer: No, that's right. And so what's a windrow. |
A row in which mown grass or hay is laid before being made up into heaps or cocks, in which sods, peats, or sheaves of corn are set up to be dried by exposure to the wind |
th-- n-- no- nobody- nobody does that anymore. Interviewer: No, that's right. And so what's a windrow. Is it just the- the row of sheaves in the field? Speaker: Yeah, well see depending on how heavy the crop was, if it was a light crop, where you'd have maybe a windrow of sheaves like you didn't want to have a whole bunch. You had maybe- by the time you put about four or five sheaves on this thing- then you- you just let your foot off it and it tripped and it dropped it in a pile. |
A row in which mown grass or hay is laid before being made up into heaps or cocks, in which sods, peats, or sheaves of corn are set up to be dried by exposure to the wind |
